Cement Company flounders

Nothing, it seems, has gone right for Caribbean Cement Company Limited in the second quarter.

First Global cuts rates too

First Global Bank (FGB), Jamaica's smallest domestically controlled commercial bank, has joined its larger peers in slicing lending rates.The two percentage-point cut drops the bank's base rate to 18.75 per cent, effective September 1.First Global is...

GHL-IFC deal awaits Sept 1 sign-off by shareholders

Guardian Holdings Limited has wrapped up negotiations and signed off on the sale of 12.8 per cent of the company to International Finance Corporation (IFC), but needs shareholder ratification to close the deal.The vote is set for September 1 in Trinidad...

J$250m First Ja share sale

An undisclosed party connected to First Jamaica Investment Limited has acquired 6.86 million of the company's shares, amounting to 2.26 per cent of the equity.

Jamaica's fiscal targets realign

A solid gain in collections of general consumption tax, at the ports and at cash registers, boosted tax revenues back into realignment at the close of the June quarter.The first fiscal-quarter intake of taxes,...

CVM says it won't replace CEO

CVM Communications Group is losing its top man, but the company seems far from perturbed and is leaving the post vacant for now.Consequently, Wayne Chen, chairman of the media company whose...

US fiscal and monetary policy, keys to global recovery

Last Thursday, James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, came out with a view that's gaining ground among members of the Federal Reserve Board.

US Treasury scaling back on borrowings

The Treasury Depart-ment said Wednesday that it has scaled back its annual borrowing capacity by US$232 billion since April and plans further gradual cuts in coming months.

Gulf well cemented

BP pumped cement into its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, hoping to start sealing it for good a day after it forced a slow torrent of heavy mud down the broken wellhead and pushed the crude back to its underground source.

Movements

PetroCaribe adds threeThree directors have been added to the board of the PetroCaribe Development Fund, including manager of the oil-backed fund, Sharon Webber......

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